During his senior year of high school, Javon Kinlaw lived with the family of a football teammate. Javon was tagged in the video "Javon Kinlaw's highlights vs. West Ashley High." No matter what the money is, I'm going to be grateful. Bad like where no one should be.
South Carolina's coaches convinced him to enroll in a GED program at Jones County Junior College in Mississippi in the spring of 2016, promising him that a commitment to improving his grades would land him a spot at the university the following year."Homeless people come up to me all the time, and I don't know why they pick me," Kinlaw said in the interview. Long before using his 6-foot-5-inch, nearly 325-pound frame to become a punishing defensive lineman for the University of South Carolina's football team, Kinlaw was a kid growing up in poverty in Washington, D.C. without a permanent place to live. I was homeless at the time," Kinlaw said in 2018. As his grades fell, the interest from major colleges waned. Free bed? But free food? I'm going to try to stick it out.' I was just playing football to pick up a hobby and stay off the streets at first."Learn more about the world of CNBC Make ItThe family would live with friends in the city, or sometimes find temporary housing even if it meant staying somewhere without electricity or running water. "The way I'm wired, I've been down, like down bad, down bad. "When Coach said 'Mississippi,' I really didn't know what I was doing or where I was going. In the fall of 2017, Kinlaw finally landed at South Carolina and he's been a mainstay on the school's football team ever since. [I] lived in basements. Javon Kinlaw (born October 3, 1997) is an American football defensive tackle for the San Francisco 49ers of the National Football League (NFL).
Posted Sat, Oct 31 2015 @ 06:06 AM Javon Kinlaw's highlights vs. West Ashley High 0:53 "We would light the stove with a little match or something, get a tall pot, boil the water, mix it with some cold water, put it in a bucket, take it upstairs, take a shower like that."Get Make It newsletters delivered to your inboxWhen he was partway through the ninth grade, Kinlaw's mother decided to send him to live with his father in South Carolina, hoping he would have more opportunities and less exposure to the crime-ridden neighborhoods they were inhabiting in Washington, D.C.Kinlaw and his brother would hop the turnstiles to ride Washington, D.C.'s metro, he told reporters, sometimes going to school but sometimes not.
His knees caused a slide out of the Top 10, but SF grabs the player with endless potential. "I just want her to have a fun childhood, [and] not have to worry about things she shouldn't have to be worrying about as a kid," Kinlaw told ESPN."They said they were offering me a scholarship. Whether he succeeds or not at the professional level, as a high draft pick Kinlaw will soon have enough money from his rookie signing bonus to ensure he and his family never again have to endure the same hardships he did as a child.Meanwhile, Kinlaw's massive size and athletic ability attracted college recruiters, who began talking to him about college football scholarships to schools like Alabama, Clemson and South Carolina.But Kinlaw's story becomes even more unique than his fellow soon-to-be NFL draft picks when you consider just how far he's come on his path to becoming a millionaire professional athlete. Javon Kinlaw is a 6-6, 305-pound Strong-Side Defensive End from Goose Creek, SC. I was like, 'What are you offering me?' I didn't really know what it was," Kinlaw told The Greeneville News in 2018. I can get me somewhere to live. He played college football at South Carolina, and was drafted by the 49ers in the first round of the 2020 NFL Draft. It's like, somehow, they know where I've been."During his senior year of high school, Javon Kinlaw lived with the family of a football teammate.Kinlaw especially wants to use that money to give his one-year-old daughter, named Eden Amara, more than he had as a child. "I was like, 'Wow, I can really try to do something with this. "There can be 1,000 other people walking by who they could ask for help, and they always walk up on me.